tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post6864354538156544459..comments2015-03-31T10:04:39.569-07:00Comments on Rabett Run: Pat Michaels Erases the ArcticEliRabetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957002964638398767noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-44848068123793840692012-10-23T15:03:11.058-07:002012-10-23T15:03:11.058-07:00Center for Environmental Science: Statement on the...<a href="http://www.umces.edu/Cato-Report" rel="nofollow">Center for Environmental Science: Statement on the Cato Institute ADDENDUM Report</a><br /><br /><i>&quot;...we are dismayed that the report of the Cato Institute, ADDENDUM: Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States, expropriates the title and style of our report in such a deceptive and misleading way. The Cato report is in no way an addendum to our 2009 report. It is not an update, explanation, or supplement by the authors of the original report. Rather, it is a completely separate document lacking rigorous scientific analysis and review.&quot;</i><br /><br />Plus more.J Bowersnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-88600475699725249942012-10-17T14:26:02.367-07:002012-10-17T14:26:02.367-07:00Bluegrue, regarding trying to apear like the real ...Bluegrue, regarding trying to apear like the real thing is Oregon Petition all over.<br /><br />--cynicusAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-43727041453337353232012-10-17T12:31:09.792-07:002012-10-17T12:31:09.792-07:00What were people trying to infer from the cover im...What were people trying to infer from the cover image ( either one ) ?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-42156756172830852792012-10-17T12:30:24.736-07:002012-10-17T12:30:24.736-07:00What were people trying to convey from the cover i...What were people trying to convey from the cover image ( either one ) ?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-24082818827295686962012-10-17T11:59:04.330-07:002012-10-17T11:59:04.330-07:00The cover of the fake report is clearly meant to r...The cover of the fake report is clearly meant to resemble the real one, so that inattentive politicians will not realize that the fake report is crap. At best they are being derivative and unimaginative; at worse, they are being dishonest at worst they are being all three.Holly Stickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01137842937086115228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-23733135009403975152012-10-17T10:59:26.666-07:002012-10-17T10:59:26.666-07:00Because the design is meant to convey the impressi...Because the design is meant to convey the impression that the CATO Addendum = is not a report generated by a bunch of third rate cranks.EliRabetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957002964638398767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-54902873522684944562012-10-17T10:47:53.466-07:002012-10-17T10:47:53.466-07:00Uhmmm - because the cover of the report uses a dif...Uhmmm - because the cover of the report uses a different image is significant, how again?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-78732238689672007172012-10-17T07:46:14.790-07:002012-10-17T07:46:14.790-07:00It&#39;s hard to parody The Amazing Michaels &amp;...It&#39;s hard to parody The Amazing Michaels &amp; the Cato Theater Company Of The Air .<br /><br />Hard ,<a href="http://vvattsupwiththat.blogspot.com/2012/10/this-way-to-egress-feejee-mermaid.html" rel="nofollow"> but not impossible</a><br />Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02578106673226403151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-61103905960038509572012-10-16T19:09:03.262-07:002012-10-16T19:09:03.262-07:00I&#39;m reminded of the time when infamous psuedos...I&#39;m reminded of the time when infamous psuedoscientists at the Discovery Institute <a href="http://endogenousretrovirus.blogspot.com/2007/11/di-fellows-expelled-for-plagiarism.html" rel="nofollow">lifted footage directly from a Harvard video on cellular processes</a>, to fill out their own production espousing &quot;Intelligent Design&quot; Creationism. <br /><br />-WheelsOCAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-55810791590511993322012-10-16T14:49:51.714-07:002012-10-16T14:49:51.714-07:00Intellectual property violation. You can easily mi...Intellectual property violation. You can easily mistake the parody for the original, by the cover.<br /><br />Snow bunnyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-73183113091944982022012-10-16T14:29:01.386-07:002012-10-16T14:29:01.386-07:00Well, I&#39;d never have thought it
- from &quot;...Well, I&#39;d never have thought it<br /><br />- from &quot;&#39;It Ain&#39;t True, Is It, Joe?&#39; Youngster Asks&quot; Minnesota Daily Star, September 29, 1920, pg. 5 News story during the Black Sox scandal. disillusioned formerly idealistic kidnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-22752958274709948832012-10-16T14:25:35.013-07:002012-10-16T14:25:35.013-07:00Yes, kid, I&#39;m afraid it isYes, kid, I&#39;m afraid it is"Shoeless" James McCarthynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-3847724479957170472012-10-16T14:24:14.494-07:002012-10-16T14:24:14.494-07:00Say it ain&#39;t so, JamesSay it ain&#39;t so, Jamesidealistic kidnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-37214252769363032222012-10-16T12:09:19.339-07:002012-10-16T12:09:19.339-07:00It is in McCarthy&#39;s interest to play the same ...It is in McCarthy&#39;s interest to play the same game rather than confront people who will be there forever.EliRabetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957002964638398767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-16026842045771917772012-10-16T11:39:09.176-07:002012-10-16T11:39:09.176-07:00regarding the attitudes of Republican Senators.......regarding the attitudes of Republican Senators....<br /><br />James McCarthy, (Biological Oceanography prof, Harvard, former President, AAAS) presented <a href="http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Files.View&amp;FileStore_id=2390c863-576b-42f1-95e9-424286a906ce" rel="nofollow">this testimony</a> in August in front of the Senate Environment and Public Works committee (chair - Barbara Boxer, ranking idiot - James Inhofe). <br /><br />McCarthy commented on what happened behind the scenes at that committee meeting, on the Scientific American podcast Science Talk, i.e. <a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=the-climate-of-climate-science-12-09-28" rel="nofollow">The Climate of Climate Science</a> somewhere around the 12th minute. <br /><br />McCarthy: &quot;there were only three other Republicans [other than Inhofe] who came to the hearing... and none of the other Republicans who spoke (two of them spoke) would associate themselves with Mr Inhofe&#39;s extreme statements. In fact Senator Sessions from Alabama said &#39;<i>I think there&#39;s a lot we don&#39;t know here but I accept the fact that the Earth is warming and that humans have something to do with it</i>&#39;. Senator Boozman from Arkansas, [who I spoke with] afterwards for about 15 minutes, said &#39;<i>you know I think this is a serious problem, but the inflammatory rhetoric is just bogging us down, we&#39;ve gotta figure out how to deal with it</i>&#39;<br /><br />McCarthy claims &quot;there are some very reasonable people&quot; I assume he meant among the Republican Senators and/or House members, who &quot;I think you can engage in discussions on this&quot;.<br /><br />The more cynical among us would tend to examine voting records, campaign literature, public speeches, Senators and/or House members websites, etc., for glimmers of &quot;reasonable&quot;ness, and I don&#39;t find a thing. Thousands agree. Eg.: <a href="http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/2011/03/27/the-u-s-congress-has-entered-the-anti-science-intellectual-wilderness-of-willful-ignorance-says-the-science-journal-nature/" rel="nofollow">this editorial in Nature</a>. In my experience, what politicians do while cutting your throat in public with legislation is attempt to disarm you and your supporters in back rooms by shaking your hand and saying anything you might find believable in the context as long as you don&#39;t have your tape recorder running. <br /><br />But, maybe some of the bunnies know McCarthy and can better assess how easy it is for these &quot;reasonable&quot; Republicans to con him. david lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01057820755734099375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-25748429248196742382012-10-16T09:42:58.141-07:002012-10-16T09:42:58.141-07:00It would be interesting if the USGCRP would ask fo...It would be interesting if the USGCRP would ask for a take down because of the misleading formatting of the report. Something along the lines of while CATO is free to write anything they want, they cannot copy our look and feel which provides a misleading impression to readers that this is a USGCRP product. <br /><br />The US NRC should have done that with the OISM manuscript.EliRabetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957002964638398767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-71755309972869129922012-10-16T09:13:10.255-07:002012-10-16T09:13:10.255-07:00I&#39;m leafing through both PDFs. I consider this...I&#39;m leafing through both PDFs. I consider this a prime example of layout and design plagiarism. Cato&#39;s TOC and section header graphics are clearly designed after the original. To me as a layman this looks like skating - if not crossing - the line to intellectual property theft in the visual presentation department. They did not copy the exact image, but most aspects of the image composition. bluegruehttp://bluegrue.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-17984054005306661992012-10-16T08:52:32.943-07:002012-10-16T08:52:32.943-07:00The Cato cover image is taken from some incarnatio...The Cato cover image is taken from some incarnation of <a href="http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/BlueMarble/BlueMarble_2002.php" rel="nofollow">NASA&#39;s Blue Marble 2002</a>. The cloud cover is a version of <a href="http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view.php?id=57747" rel="nofollow">NASA&#39;s cloud overlay</a>, where thin clouds have been rendered invisible (the shapes still identify it uniquely as Blue Marble). Going by the vegetation this seems to be a <a href="http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/BlueMarble/BlueMarble_monthlies.php" rel="nofollow">shot from July or August</a>. Not sure how the image was composited. Going by the distortions it could almost be the flat Earth skin posted by NASA. Maybe the used Virtual Earth or Google Earth (as they seem to have done on page 5). In any case, the cloud cover has been thinned as compared to the original and the peculiar &quot;horizon&quot; can only be done using a circular mask, a real projection of a sphere will not do this trick.bluegruehttp://bluegrue.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-59338487742551700402012-10-16T07:20:06.259-07:002012-10-16T07:20:06.259-07:00Half-Graph Michaels strikes again.
It&#39;s time ...Half-Graph Michaels strikes again. <br />It&#39;s time for his nick name to catch on.<br /><br />Pete DunkelbergAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-17903391654236353382012-10-16T05:57:16.049-07:002012-10-16T05:57:16.049-07:00Who thinks the Republican senators are gullible? W...Who thinks the Republican senators are gullible? Who doesn&#39;t imagine that they requested something exactly like this?Jeffrey Davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17966839006518642902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-48413918077238324882012-10-16T05:37:24.187-07:002012-10-16T05:37:24.187-07:00The CATO Institute is where square pegs go to be p...The CATO Institute is where square pegs go to be pounded into round holes!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-50805068222860933492012-10-16T05:34:52.847-07:002012-10-16T05:34:52.847-07:00Aside from removing the inconvenient Arctic, Cato ...Aside from removing the inconvenient Arctic, Cato seems to have found a version of the map that has a greener representation of the axis from Texas up to the Dakotas. Either that or they touched up a map.<br /><br />They&#39;ve also found one with cloud that conveniently gives the impression of snow toward the north.<br /><br />Simple tricks, but apparently that&#39;s all that&#39;s required for GOP-smacking.<br /><br /><br />Bernard J. Hyphen-Anonymous XVII, Esq.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-7430781819704419822012-10-16T01:59:08.476-07:002012-10-16T01:59:08.476-07:00Looking at the cover: Could Cambridge University P...Looking at the cover: Could Cambridge University Press sue for copyright infringement?bluegruenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-50504016105747425522012-10-16T00:07:40.675-07:002012-10-16T00:07:40.675-07:00Good ol&#39; Cato. For a while, they had Rupert Mu...Good ol&#39; Cato. <a href="http://www.cato.org/pubs/policy_report/cpr-19n6-10.html" rel="nofollow">For a while, they had Rupert Murdoch on their Board of Directors.</a><br /> Lars Karlssonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06158469980966810882noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-6785568494966601832012-10-15T22:23:20.588-07:002012-10-15T22:23:20.588-07:00Pat seems unable to put down the mandolin he use...Pat seems unable <a href="http://vvattsupwiththat.blogspot.com/2012/10/this-way-to-egress-feejee-mermaid.html" rel="nofollow"> to put down the mandolin</a> he used to slice off the top of the planet.Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02578106673226403151noreply@blogger.com